OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? | Alan Weisman
How many humans can the planet support without capsizing? Alan Weisman, journalist and author of Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, joins us. Highlights include:
- How growth-biased cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems are collectively undermining our ability to live within planetary limits;
- How both the intended and unintended consequences of the Green Revolution helped push us beyond Earth’s carrying capacity, while devastating natural ecosytems;
- The ethnic, religious, and political complexities and history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and how pronatalism and ecological overshoot factor into it;
- How Iran, Thailand, and Costa Rica developed some of the most successful family planning programs in the world;
- The role of the Catholic Church as a potent force of pronatalism around the world.
See episode website for show notes, links, and transcript: https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/alan-weisman
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OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance [Formerly The Overpopulation Podcast]
OVERSHOOT tackles today’s interlocked social and ecological crises driven by humanity’s excessive population and consumption. The podcast explores needed narrative, behavioral, and system shifts for recreating human life in balance with all life on Earth. With expert guests from wide-ranging disciplines, we examine the forces underlying overshoot: from patriarchal pronatalism that is fueling overpopulation, to growth-biased economic systems that lead to consumerism and social injustice, to the dominant worldview of human supremacy that subjugates animals and nature. Our vision of shrinking toward abundance inspires us to seek pathways of transformation that go beyond technological fixes toward a new humanity that honors our interconnectedness with all beings.
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